Sacked managers

[BushBlade]

A glittering haul from what must be the best part of a hundred years between them! The only one who plays proper football has done as much as the hoofers put together. A great and fitting tribute to your beloved Hoofitanhopefortbest.

I don't think he ever got over that bad injury. Was it a punctured kidney? I think it did him psychologically.


Sorry, meant to reply to the post about Katchouro but my phone blew up the results graphic and somehow I've replied to this instead.

 

[JohnDenver]

I would gladly take Blackwells Sheffield United over the spineless majority of this current squad any day of the week. At least they gave a shit.

His squad or his tactics? Imagine the bunch of Div1 chuffers we have now, but using Blackwell tactics. That's a nasty combo.

Blackwell was a manger who had no sense of how to develop a player or build a squad over time. In my mind he was the true Quick Fix manager - very useful for getting basic discipline into Robbo's chaotic squad, but the next steps were far beyond his ability. His players were ground down over time, leaving us with a relegation rabble. Granted he didn't relegate us, but he laid the ground work and spent a lot of money in doing so. And the football was dire.

Blackwell was really "Quick Fix". Micky, sadly for us, couldn't fix a dripping tap.

 

[Silent Blade]

Mercer and Allison of course, went on to fashion a City team that was not only successful but an absolute delight to watch. They would have gone down very badly with some of our contributors....

They were on course to win the league in 1972 but many say that their biggest mistake was signing Rodney Marsh before the March deadline. They reckon he was too much of a flair player for the team. Neil Young said "Rodney cost us the league, there's no doubt about it,' City's left winger said. 'Whereas before we all knew where we were on the pitch and what we were doing, when Rodney came he unsettled the team. Somebody would give him the ball and I'd make a run ready to collect it in the box and it would never arrive. I'd turn around and he would be juggling it like a bloody seal.'

 

[Sothall_Blade]

I often wonder why you hoofers don't simply watch pub games, where the standard and style is just right for you, instead of wishing such awful unskilled, talentless hoofanhope on those of us who prefer proper football...

Absolutely. I agree. The problem is that the time is long since up, yet both would play exactly the same today and many numpties would encourage just that....

This thread is discussing whether United by benefitted by losing Warnock, Bassett (and others) when they sacked them, 10 and 20 years ago.
Nobody is suggesting getting rid of Adkins and bringing them back now. Other than the nasty voices in your head perhaps? (Wibble)

I’ll not bother explaining to you yet again that there are more than two different ways to play football (hoof and not-hoof).
You don’t seem to be capable of grasping that concept.
Just as you don’t accept the idea that there may be more than one type of midfielder with differing roles and attributes.
Your “Boys Book of Football Tactics” doesn’t seem to extend much beyond chapter one.
Still, you seem happy enough in your ignorance, so I’m content to leave you there.

 

[Revolution]

Dave Bassett - my favourite United manager, but his time was up.

Kendall - he resigned, and he lost it for the last half season anyway. After that final I was glad to see the back of him.

Spackman - I was sorry to see him quit. I know he's done nothing since and I've seen the Donachie power behind the throne theory but the fact remains that the 2 major problems - Green selling our best players and crippling injuries - were not his fault.

Bruce - at the time I was not bothered but since then (and reading Fit and Proper) I think he was screwed over by the board and I don't blame him for leaving. He was better than his immediate successor.

Heath - signed some good players but couldn't manage them. Warnock got the same players doing much better. Glad he quit.

Our Neil - He was not fired of course. Contract not renewed. I thought it was the right move and still do, despite his good work before that. The problem was the shocking decision as to who would replace him.

Bryan Robson - McCabe's biggest mistake. My only regret is we didn't fire him earlier. 2 more weeks without him and we'd have made the playoffs.

Kevin Blackwell - If I was going to can him, I'd have done it at the end of 2010. He was fired at the worst time.

Speed - Didn't rate him, not sad to see him go.

Mickey Adams - terrible appointment. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Danny Wilson - Another one defeated by events beyond his control. An idiot dismissal which McCabe notably couldn't explain at the press conference announcing Morgan's appointment.

David Weir - Again, good riddance to bad rubbish. No clue what he was doing.

Nigel Clough - Was surprised by this one, and I wouldn't have done it...but I do not miss him.

 

[Grecian2000]

Blackwell should never have been sacked. He kept united at the top end of the 2nd tier with a simple philosophy of winning the ball at all costs and whacking it to somebody who can score. It wasn't pretty but I couldn't care less. I got sick to death of everyone whinging about "hoofball", we'd spent one season in the Premiership and everyone had suddenly decided that we were supposed to play like Real fucking Madrid all the time.
I would gladly take Blackwells Sheffield United over the spineless majority of this current squad any day of the week. At least they gave a shit.

Other than some of BTL's ramblings I don't think I've ever seen a post I disagree with more. The useless twat took Robson's expensive, talented and completely under managed squad, got them fit enough to play for 90 minutes, and did the job required.
He spent the next two years replacing these players (not his fault on some occasions, but the ones he bullied out of the club certainly were) and left us with a squad incapable of anything other than terminal decline (as he has done at every single other job he's had and been sacked from). He might not have got us relegated as quickly as we were but it would have come.

His squad or his tactics? Imagine the bunch of Div1 chuffers we have now, but using Blackwell tactics. That's a nasty combo.

Blackwell was a manger who had no sense of how to develop a player or build a squad over time. In my mind he was the true Quick Fix manager - very useful for getting basic discipline into Robbo's chaotic squad, but the next steps were far beyond his ability. His players were ground down over time, leaving us with a relegation rabble. Granted he didn't relegate us, but he laid the ground work and spent a lot of money in doing so. And the football was dire.

Blackwell was really "Quick Fix". Micky, sadly for us, couldn't fix a dripping tap.

Or I could have put it like that JD.
Never despised a manager (or bloke actually) as much as the bullying gobshite.